Alexis Keys, University of Maryland, College Park
Alexis Keys is a rising senior at the University of Maryland, College Park, majoring in government and politics and minoring in public leadership. She is a Rawlings Undergraduate Leadership Fellow, a Legislative Intern at the Maryland General Assembly, and a Spring 2026 inducted member of Kappa Omega Alpha. She has spent the past academic year as an undergraduate research assistant in Associate Professor Dr. Periloux Peay’s Transformative American Politics (TrAP) Lab at the University of Maryland. She has incorporated field research methods into projects examining incrementalism in congressional records and stress responses to politically threatening policies, with particular attention to the locational roots of African American communities. Alexis is interested in researching public opinion, political polling, and how data can drive economic and social mobility for underrepresented communities in the Washington metropolitan area. After graduating, she plans to pursue a doctoral degree in political science with a concentration in applied political analytics, preparing for a professional career in data analysis and policy program evaluation.
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